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Fun Autry Fact:

In 1940, and probably for several years before and after, the Gene Autry cap pistol was the main industry in Kenton, Ohio, a town of then 7,000.

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On the Merry Old Way Back Home
from Colorado Sunset (1939)


Gene Autry and his singing cowboy pals Smiley Burnette and the CBS-KMBC Texas Rangers are ridin' and singin' "On the Merry Old Way Back Home" from Gene Autry's 1939 Republic Pictures film Colorado Sunset.

Written by W. G. Samuels (Walter G. Samuels)
Published by Santly Joy

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